The Office: Episode One

I have had so many friends talk about their love for The Office (the American version) and I had never seen an episode. So today, I changed that. I watched and live-tweeted the first episode and now I’m conflicted.

It starts out weird, stays weird, and ends weird and I’m not sure I get it. There’s a lot of focus on Michael Scott (obviously, Steve Carrell is top billing after all) and he’s not just a bad boss – he might be a bad person. The Jim and Pam relationship is uncomfortable. There’s just so much strangeness but it’s also weirdly compelling. I’ll probably have to keep watching at least for a bit, just to see if I can understand the hype.

Read all about it here.